The European Central Bank (ECB) reported in late July that its database had been hacked, and sensitive data had been retrieved from it. The bank explained that most of the data had been encrypted, which means it would be difficult or impossible for a hacker to read. Some of it,...

Most businesses big and small today have built up a social media presence of some kind in recent years. Whether through Facebook and Twitter or YouTube and LinkedIn, an effective social media strategy has become one of the best ways to promote one’s brand and engage customers. In recent...

Social media has become an important part of SEO marketing strategies, but according to a recent Forbes article, it has become“the New Black Hat” of the internet search engine process; in other words, when SEO gurus failed to scam Google’s search engine algorithm with “Black Hat SEO tricks,” other...

One of the biggest problems with online shopping is that you can’t try on the clothes before you buy them, so sometimes you have to gamble on whether or not that shirt or those jeans are really going to fit all that well. MTailor is a new company that...

As millions of people hopped online to watch Germany trounce Argentina in the final game of the 2014 World Cup on Sunday, a number of the biggest social media platforms on the web experienced record breaking user activity. According to a report from The Guardian, Twittersurpassed its previous record of 580,166...

For owners of manufacturing businesses, it turns out that using the internet can have serious advantages, especially for those who have machines and other devices that connect to it, also. However, John Nesi, vice president of market development at Rockwell Automation, states that only 10 percent of industrial operations are using...

As a result of the European Union’s new “right to be forgotten” landmark ruling, Google has now begun to comply with the numerous requests for individuals to remove their names from internet searches. Google engineers updated the algorithms used for their searches, and this Thursday, they began delivering the first patch...

Credit card payment processing allows cardholders to make purchases just about anywhere in world, but sometimes it can have consequences on unsecured systems — for both consumers and businesses. P.F. Chang’s, a restaurant chain with over 200 bistros across the United States, recently confirmed that it had credit and debit...

“The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a brief on Friday telling a federal judge that there is no doubt that the federal government knowingly destroyed years of evidence of electronic surveillance conducted by the National Security Agency — despite a court injunction being in place to order the evidence’s protection,” The Mint News Press reports....

WebMD is suing one of its competitors, Everyday Health, for what it claims are unfair search engine marketing practices along with trademark infringement, false advertising and unfair competition. According to the Wall Street Journal, WebMD’s complaint, filed on Thursday, June 19, states that Everyday Health has been using WebMD’s trademark on...